if there is one small good in the blow of nature

the people of Japan are resilient, wise, hard working, and we admire them for their land, their culture, and their way of life.

i named myself as samurai after being impacted by the movie the last samurai. japanese filmmakers have inspired our filmmakers. i ve got a friend who visits Japan often, and he tells there is a lot of similarity between Tamil and Japanese. most fundamental of all, we admire the Japanese for their dignity, and their civilisation. they live on a beautiful land, and have an ages-old and most unique civilisation, which is unparalleled in its greatness.

if there is one good that there can be taken in this blow of nature, it is that Japan will probably not be able to go forward with its aid to the murderous blood-thirsty mob that is steering Sri Lanka today.

when we get to know with each passing day, about how the Tamils were left to the mercy of the occupier, who had the backing of every developed economy in the World, our blood boils and our anger seethes. we are left helpless by the ganging up of all the developed countries, with Canada and Australia behaving like blood-thirsty nations themselves.


http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/22/joint-letter-japanese-foreign-minister-sri-lanka


http://blog.srilankacampaign.org/2010/11/japan-is-failing-in-sri-lanka.html

japanese elections

a solid challenge has developed to a 50 year monopoly,the liberal democratic party, in japan.
the ldp is not like our INC,it looks more like a elite club of the richer classes.
these guys would have just kept on going,without any attempts at reinventing themselves.
when the going gets tough or when an interesting challenger manages to arrive on the scene,the people would naturally go for the new option.
in india,the bjp was the interesting challenger,which arrived on the scene in the mid nineties.
talking about different policies and coming to power on that basis was not the reason for the interest aroused in the people.
they were fed a fantasy and an altered history which somehow managed to convince the people into folly.
swapan dasgupta made a big deal about advani being a defining moment in the politics of our country.
it was done be creating chaos,terror and fear in countless minds all over india,some of these minds will never recover from the imprint of those days of dislocation and doubt.
when one realises the complexity of our nation,the realisation that there is no alternative to a one party rule of the INC will also come in.
this cartoon describes the defects that creep in at times into the INC.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/28/stories/2009082899991000.htm
the one thing that would cure politics all over the world would be to allow only two continuous terms and a second chance after a gap of two terms,whoever be it.
a great leader will manage to get back to the posts he has relinquished.
a different perspective would do a lot of good to any leader.
rahul gandhi has initiated the processes which might awaken the congress into a reinvention.
just like edward kennedy,rahul gandhi will be the gandhi that achieved the most,at the end of the day.
the thing that needs to be instilled into our people is about the dignity of labour and a distaste for ostentation and the inclination to look at some others as being below or above ourselves on the talent scale.
looking at the LDP in japan,it seems that the challenger,the DPJ, has decided to rock the peaceful journey of the LDF boat through the years.
but,the real challenge,will come up after gaining power,when the momentum wont be achieved easily which was achieved during the elections.
ultimately,it would probably not be worth the effort.the better bet would be to rouse the party from within.
this was what jaswant singh probably wanted to do,if the bjp was a true political party,without connections to savarkar,it would have been an interesting time.

Japan

I saw in this report that Japan has renounced the right to wage war ,which is an extremely unique declaration.
The aggressions of the early twentieth century accompanied by massacres and other crimes in the occupied countries have left the future generations grappling with these issues and trying to come out with explanations.
All actions of nations throughout history seem to come back and disturb the following generations.
The Japanese are possibly in a denial of their culture and have a feeling of rootlessness which seems to have led the youth into following American lifestyles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7702374.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7365138.stm